Hiding the Lockheed Plant during World War II

[Manky Monkey]

Emailed to me by Renegade a while ago;

"Lockheed During W.W.II, (unbelievable 1940s pictures).   
This is a version of special effects during the 1940s. I've never seen these pictures or knew that we'd gone this far to protect ourselves.
During World War II the Army Corps of Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant to protect it from a possible Japanese air attack. They covered it with camouflage netting to make it look like a rural subdivision from the air".

Before-

[Manky Monkey]

And after-

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[Manky Monkey]

"The person I received this from said she got back an interesting story about someone's mother who worked at Lockheed, and she as a younger child, remembers all this and to this day, these are the first pictures of it she's seen. 
Another person who lived in the area talked about watching it all being set up like a movie studio production when he was a boy. They had fake houses, trees, etc and moved parked cars around so it looked like a residential area from the skies overhead".

 

[Mr_G]

Very interesting.

[mouse]

amazing aint it

[Plasticpig]

I like the houses on top of the hangers.